All food intercepted is processed, quality controlled and distributed through the project's cafes, a Sharehouse and a
Freegan box scheme, all with the ambition to #FeedBelliesNotBins.
The young, New York City-based photographer has long been drawn to issues pertaining to our food system, but she points to one experience in particular as inspiration for this project: an assignment with a
freegan (someone who salvages wasted food and other goods in order to minimize their impact on the environment) who was rescuing food and laying it out on the streets of New York City, speaking with people about the food as they walked by.
Barnard then dives into a case study of the activities surrounding
freegan. info, a website that served as an organising hub for anti-capitalist activists in New York City and whose name is derived from the words free and vegan.
A low point during her time as a
freegan (an anti-capitalist who dumpster dives for unopened food) changed the trajectory of her life forever.
During the hour-long mockumentary, Alan tours the north, works behind the checkout at Tesco - he's a natural at it - hangs out with a 'gang' of youths (while wearing a stab vest), and goes foraging with a
freegan (played by Karl Theobald).
A
Freegan buffet awaited made with out-of-date food salvaged from supermarket bins.
The
Freegan Phenomenon: Anti-Consumption or Consumer Resistance?
Some of the alluring examples from Maxwell 2006 are
freegan (coined after vegan), blooks (potentially a blend from blog and book to designate these blogs turned into books.
Freegan, first recorded in The Sunday Times newspaper in 1997 to describe a person who eats discarded food, typically from supermarket refuse, for ethical reasons, also enters the OED.
Freegan Someone who eats thrown away food as they hate waste.
Some of the other words added included
freegan - someone who eats discarded food - and ecotown - a new town designed to have minimum impact on environment.